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Saturday, March 7, 2009

Pink Dolphin .......I never knew !

Charter boat captain Erik Rue, 42, photographed the animal, which is actually an albino, when he began studying it after the mammal first surfaced in Lake Calcasieu, an inland saltwater estuary, north of the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana.Capt Rue originally saw the dolphin, which also has reddish eyes, swimming with a pod of four other dolphins, with one appearing to be its mother which never left its side.."It was absolutely stunningly pink."I had never seen anything like it. It's the same color throughout the whole body and it looks like it just came out of a paint booth."The dolphin appears to be healthy and normal other than its coloration, which is quite beautiful and stunningly pink."The mammal is entirely pink from tip to tail and has reddish eyes indicating its albinism. The skin appears smooth, glossy pink and without flaws.

"Surprisingly, it does not appear to be drastically affected by the environment or sunlight as might be expected considering its condition, although it tends to remain below the surface a little more than the others in the pod."Regina Asmutis-Silvia, senior biologist with the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, said: "I have never seen a dolphin colored in this way in all my career."While this animal looks pink, it is an albino which you can notice in the pink eyes.